A single file arrived with a.gz on the end and nothing on your machine will open it? This free gz extractor decompresses that one gzip file back into the original file, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed.
How to use this gz extractor
Three quick steps — no signup, no cost.
Select the gzip file you want to decompress.
The gzip stream is decoded in your browser, recovering the original file.
The decompressed file downloads with the.gz suffix removed from its name.
Why this gz extractor is the right tool for a single compressed file
Gzip compresses one file — and this tool undoes exactly that, nothing more.
Gzip wraps a single file, so decompression returns that one file — no archive of many files to sort through.
Removing.gz from the name usually reveals the original: report.csv.gz becomes report.csv.
Decompression runs in the browser, which helps on machines without gzip tools.
The file is decoded on your device, so its contents never leave it.
GZ Extractor FAQs
Short, direct answers to the questions readers ask most.
It decompresses the gzip layer only, leaving a.tar archive — not the files inside it. To get those files as a ZIP, use a TAR to ZIP converter instead.
No, and that is by design: gzip compresses a single file, not a collection. A.gz file holds one file; a.tar.gz holds one TAR archive that itself holds many files.
Strip the.gz suffix from the name. If the name ends in.tar.gz, the result is a.tar file; otherwise the remaining extension names the original file.
No. Gzip decompression is lossless — the recovered file is byte-for-byte the file that was compressed.
No. ZIP and gzip are different formats: ZIP bundles and compresses many files, while gzip compresses one. Use a ZIP extractor for.zip files.
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